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Give us the option to opt out of playing against new accounts
You have the option. It's called abort.
I primarily play bullet. This is not a real solution for me to lose time checking every single players profile before I play.
Everyone wouldn't do this, especially not at an ELO that a genuinely new player would be playing at - 1200 and below.
New accounts are more often than not, cheaters or smurfs. Both are an incredibly frustrating experience. Pretty much everytime I play, I run into this exact experience. Playing against an account made "1 hour ago" is almost unilaterally a very negative experience.
How is this not considered a bigger issue. In other competitive games, there are significantly more barriers to entry?
In League of legends you need to be level 30 before playing ranked, which equates to roughly about ~100 hours of gameplay. In Dota 2 you need 100 hours of unrated gameplay and a verififed phone number. Smurfing is a bannable offense in Dota with both your smurf and main accounts being banned when caught.
In this game, I can boot up a new account start cheating right away or terrorizing ratings where I do not belong instantly. Mind you, you can close your own account before you get caught cheating. This leads to way too many low quality games.